Fastening device.



W. T. SCOTT.

FASTENING DEVICE. APPLICATION HLED Nov.'19, 1912. RENEWED NOV. 28. m4.

Patented May 18, 1915.

LLLQQgQQL witmeooeo WALTER THOMAS SCOTT, OE GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

M FASTENING DEVICE.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed. November 19, 1912,- Serial No. 732,339. Renewed November 28, 1914. Serial No. 874,559.

To all whom i2, may concern Be it known that I, VVALTER THOMAS Scorr, a citizen of the United States, residing at Gloucester, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fastening devices.

The main object of my invention is to provide an effective substitute for a hook and eye fastening device.

A more specific object of the invention is to provide a plate having lugs struck up therefrom and a U-shaped element provided with coiled ends adapted to be contracted so as to be inserted between and under the lugs and between the lugs and the plate, the terminal ends of said element being coiled to hook around the lug and the legs of the U-shaped element being bent in diverging relation from the lugs so as to hold the element and plate against displacement with respect to each other in any direction.

Other and more specific objects will appear from the description following taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein the preferred embodiment is shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is an elevation showing the parts of the fastening device attached and fragments of a garment or the like fastened through its medium; F 2 is a detail longitudinal sectional view through the plate member employed; Fig. 3 is a front view of said plate member, and; Fig. 4 is an end view of the yieldable hook member.

In the drawings, like reference characters designate like or similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 1 and 2 represent portions of a garment or the like that are to be closed by a detachable fastener. Such portions 1 and 2 are shown in closed relation by means of the device embodying my invention. Said device essentially comprises a Iugcarrying plate member A, attached as by stitching at a to one portion of the garment, and a yieldable hook or fastening member B secured as by stitching at Z) to the other portion of the garment.

The plate A may be of any suitable construction and is shown provided with openings 3 to enable the use of stitching thread, and is provided with a plurality of struck out lugs 4 which it will be noticed are distanced from the adjacent face of the plate.

The hook member is preferably made of a single strand of flexible wire so bent or looped as to form side arms 5, which adjacent their free end, are bent or formed into hooks 6, the free ends of the arms beyond the hooks being returned or terminating in coils designated 7. Said hook or fastening member B is of yieldable metal as stated. In use, in effecting attachment of the hook member to the plate member, the arms 5 are pressed together and then inserted through the opening intermediate the ends of the lugs 4 and thence beneath said lugs. Thereupon, the arms are released and the inherent spring thereof will force the same apart and the hooks 6 securely into engagement with the lugs. It will be noticed that the arms 5 are provided with arcuate portions for a portion of their length. These portions tend to prevent lateral movement of the arms 5 relatively to the lugs in one direction; lateral movement in the other direction as is obvious, will be prevented by the hooks. By reason of the provision of the coils 7, the hook member may be pulled into such relation with the lugs that the same are yieldingly held between the coils 7 and the hooks 6.

As minor changes in the details of construction of the device described may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claim, such changes are reversed.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A garment fastener comprising a plate of sheet material adapted to be secured to one margin of a garment in flat-abutting relation and having a pair of lugs struck up therefrom with the ends of the lugs approaching but not meeting to thereby form an entrance passage between said lugs, and a substantially U-shaped resilient element adapted to be secured to another margin of the garment at the crotch of said element, the ends of said U-shaped element being adapted to be contracted for insertion through said entrance passage and thereafter spreading to engage the bases of the lugs at the juncture thereof with said plates, the terminal ends of said element being coiled to hook around said lugs and prevent displacement of said plate and element away from each other and also hold the legs of the U-shaped elements under said lugs, andthe legs of the U-shaped element diverging out- Wardly from the lugs to prevent relative displacement of said plate and element toward each other, substantially as described.

' W'ALTER THOMAS SCOTT.

-Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. TUCKER, CHARLES A. WAY.

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